Milestones

Milestones Achieved

✔ The book is at the printer (in China) in its final form as of February 7th.    WHOOOEEE!!!!! 

✔ Email to Pre-Publication customers to confirm shipping address in February (OK, early March--oops) 

To Do

□  Waiting to hear if possible. Advance air shipped copies early March?

□  Pre-Publication orders ready to Ship—Late April/early May

□ In Bookstores and Amazon -mid June 2024

 In Progress

➞Assemble List of potential customer stores, Independent book stores, Food Stores, gift stores, and their contacts interested in carrying this book.

➞Frequent updates to blog

➞Status Updates on Facebook and Instagram

Completed

✔ 184 Full Color InDesign recipe pages by RZ

✔ 40,000 words of memoir written by RZ

✔✔ Writer/Editor hired to smooth memoir and interconnect both pieces. May and July 2023

✔ Recipe Testing and Editing completed Aug 2023

✔ Contracted with Sky Horse publishing (Simon & Schuster distribution).Signed Aug 2023

✔Smoothing and Connecting of memoir completed by Labor Day.

✔Complete Manuscript Submitted to Sky Horse by Sept 10

✔With Sky Horse decisions of whether or not to include additional photos and commentary

✔Foreword by Dr. Sinclair Philip of Sooke Harbour House , BC

✔Sky Horse Edit and discussion of book order, inserts, etc. .

✔Final Price set by Sky Horse after receiving printer bids

✔Almost final edit of entire book assembled in PDF

✔Final edit of entire book innards

✔Entire book innards sent to printer

✔Indexing--by Sky Horse

✔Cover fabric and place marking selections made

✔Blurb from Thomas Keller-Thank you!

 

✔ Final Cover Wrap Design

✔ Inside cover art paper design

 

✔ Blurbs from Rene Redzepi, and Susan Hermann Loomis

✔ Foil selection for actual book exterior

 

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